Nvidia Titan V Specifications - Is it worth $3,000?

This isn't even the offering all that GV100 is capable of

Nvidia Titan V Specifications - Is it worth $3,000?

Nvidia has announced their new Titan V GPU, the company's first consumer/prosumer Volta based product and their first Titan-series GPU to make use of HBM2 memory.

This graphics processor will come with an extremely high price tag of $3,000, making it the company's most expensive Titan-class GPU to date, delivering new features that have never been seen before outside of Nvidia's Tesla series of products.

While this GPU can be used with Geforce gaming drivers, this product is not designed for gamers, offering AI specific features that go unused while under traditional gaming workloads. Nvidia's new Tensor cores are the main selling point of this new graphics product, so if you don't already know what these additional cores deliver, it is safe to say that this is not the graphics processor for you.

The Titan V will come with a monstrous single precision CUDA core count of 5,220, offering 33% more graphics processing units than Nvidia's Titan Xp, though these come with a lower base and boost clock speeds. Combine this with this GPU's 12GB of HBM2 memory and the Titan V also delivers more memory bandwidth than the Titan Xp, offering a sizable performance boost.

With the Titan V, Nvidia has opted not to utilise GV100's maxed out memory configuration, utilising 12GB of HBM2 memory instead of 16GB. The Tian V uses three active HBM2 memory chips instead of four, losing the GPU a quarter of GV100's maximum potential bandwidth, even with this limitation the Titan V still outperforms the Titan Xp by a significant margin when it comes to memory performance.

Titan V

Titan Xp

GTX Titan X

GTX 1080 Ti

GTX 1080

GPU Architecture

Volta

Pascal

Pascal

Pascal

Pascal

Process node

12nm

16nm

16nm

16nm

16nm

Die Size (mm^2)

815

471

471

471

314

SM Units

80

60

56

56

40

Cores per SM

64

64

64

64

64

CUDA Core Count

5120

3840

3584

3584

2560

Tensor Cores

640

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

ROPs

?

96

96

88

64

VRAM Type

HBM2

GDDR5X

GDDR5X

GDDR5X

GDDR5X

Memory Clock

850MHz

11408MHz

10008MHz

11008MHz

10008MHz

VRAM Cappacity

12GB

12GB

12GB

11GB

8GB

Memory Bus Size

3072-bit

384-bit

384-bit

352-bit

256-bit

Memory Bandwidth

652.8GB/s

547.7GB/s

480 GB/s

484 GB/s

320 GB/s

Base clock speed

1200MHz

-

1417MHz

-

1607MHz

Boost clock speed

1455Mhz

1582MHz

1531MHz

1582MHz

1733MHz

TDP

250W

250W

250W

250W

180W

Power Connection

1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

PCI Express

PCIe 3.0

PCIe 3.0

PCIe 3.0

PCIe 3.0

PCIe 3.0

Display output wise, this graphics card is identical to the Titan Xp, offering a single HDMI 2.0 connection and three DisplayPort 1.4 connections. The GPU is a standard 2-slot GPU design with a Nvidia Founders Edtion style cooler with a golden finish.

This GPU has a TDP of 250W and is powered by an 8-pin 6-pin PCIe configuration, giving it the same power characteristics as the Titan Xp. This reduced power is likely due to the power benefits of HBM2 memory over GDDR5X, 12nm over 16nm and the lower clock speeds of this larger GPU design.

Is this GPU worth $3,000? If you can make use of this GPUs Tensor cores, yet, it could be, if not there is no way that we could possibly consider this GPU as good value for money, especially for gaming workloads.

The Titan V will release on December 17th and is available to pre-order on Nvidia's online store.

I'm quite interested in it's machine learning/deep learning capabilities considering that's what it was really built for, Would be very interesting to see a program take full advantage of it and see it working in real time.Quote

I'm quite interested in it's machine learning/deep learning capabilities considering that's what it was really built for, Would be very interesting to see a program take full advantage of it and see it working in real time.

I surpose the way to look at this announcement is that now they have done this for the professional end of the market, that the volta based gpu's for us mear mortals is coming closer in the future. But who really knows with NvidaQuote

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